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The Process of Creation
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the  brahmajyoti  is concentrated in Goloka Vṛndāvana, the topmost spiritual planet in the spiritual sky. The immeasurable spiritual sky is full of spiritual planets, named Vaikuṇṭhas, far beyond the material sky. The mundaners have no sufficient information of even the mundane sky, so what can they think of the spiritual sky? Therefore the mundaners are always far, far away from Him. Even if they are able to manufacture some machine, in the future, whose speed may be accelerated to the velocity of the air or mind, the mundaners will still be unable to imagine reaching the planets in the spiritual sky. So the Lord and His residential abode will always remain a myth or a mysterious problem, but for the devotees the Lord will always be available as an associate.
In the spiritual sky His opulence is immeasurable. The Lord resides in all the spiritual planets, or innumerable Vaikuṇṭha planets, by expanding His plenary portions along with His liberated devotee associates, but the impersonalists who want to merge in the existence of the Lord are allowed to merge as one of the spiritual sparks of  brahmajyoti . They have no qualifications for becoming one of the associates of the Lord either in the Vaikuṇṭha planets or in the supreme planet Goloka Vṛndāvana, described in the  Bhagavad-gītā  as the  mad-dhāma , and here in this verse as the  sva-dhāma  of the Lord.
This  mad-dhāma  or  sva-dhāma  is described in the  Bhagavad-gītā  as follows:
na tad bhāsayate sūryo na śaśāṅko na pāvkaḥ yad gatvā na nivartante tad-dhāma paramaṁ mama.
(Bg. 15.6)
The Lord's  sva-dhāma  does not require any sunlight or moonlight or electricity for illumination. That  dhāma , or place, is supreme, and whoever goes there never comes back to this material world.
The Vaikuṇṭha planets and the Goloka Vṛndāvana planet are all self-illuminating, and the rays are scattered by those  sva-dhāma  of the Lord which constitute the existence of the  brahmajyoti . It is further confirmed in the  Vedas  like the  Muṇḍaka ,  Kaṭha  and  Śvetāśvatara Upaniṣads :
na tatra sūryo bhāti na candratārakam nemā vidyuto bhānti kuto ayam agniḥ tam eva bhāntam anubhāti sarvam tasya bhāsā sarvam idaṁ vibhāti.